Chapter 459. granting a pension to Mrs
227 words·~1 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-26/chapter-459-4881244·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 459.— An Act granting a pension to Mrs. Sallie J. Miner.June 20, 1890. Whereas, Sallie J. Miner, formerly Sallie Jeffords, nee Chamberlin,Preamble. of Fulton, New York, now of Saginaw County, Michigan, served as a nurse in the military hospitals in the United States from August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, until her discharge on November ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and is now over seventy years old. infirm, and dependent upon a step-son for the necessaries of life; and Whereas, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five she married one Milo Miner, who during the war was employed by the Government as a bridge carpenter, having been refused acceptance into the military service as a soldier because of his age and infirmities, and who had given his four only sons to the military service; *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Sallie J.
Miner.Pension., That said Sallie J. Miner be. and is hereby, granted and allowed a pension for services as a nurse in the military hospital of the United States, and the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay her said pension and to place her name on the pension-roll at the rate of twelve dollars per month after the passage of this act. Approved, June 20, 1890.